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I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

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Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

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I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

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Every actor wants to direct.

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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

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I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

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We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

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I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

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I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.

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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

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Audiences are audiences.

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When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

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I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

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I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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